VegetarianMastery-Lesson29

1.Use these techniques to slow down the uptake of fruit sugar into your blood: Eat whole fresh fruit, not dried fruit or fruit juice. Eat fruit with lettuce or celery. Eat fruits (like oranges, strawberries, or kiwi) with nuts, nut butter, or avocado. Avoid fruit pies and tarts, and other desserts with refined sugar and […]

Nomi Shannon www.rawgourmet.com Little Known Secrets About Fruit: Discover four ways to slow down blood sugar spikes from fruit. Find out which fruits have the most pesticide residues and which cause tooth decay. Learn how to avoid indigestion and speed up (or slow down) the ripening of your fruit. Little Known Secrets About Fruit with

By definition, organic fruit is free of synthetic pesticides. If you can eat exclusively organic fruit, then do so. However, what if your budget doesn’t make that possible? Or what if you’re served fruit at a restaurant, hotel, or someone else’s home? At www.foodnews.org, you can download a list of “The Dirty Dozen” and “The Clean

How to Speed Up or Slow Down the Ripening of Your Fruit How would you like to speed up the ripening of green bananas, or stop perfectly ripe avocados from becoming brown and mushy? When fruits ripen, they emit ethylene gas, which speeds up the ripening process. If your bananas are too green, or your

Several of my friends got more cavities after switching to a raw food diet. Why? They eat more acid fruit and dried fruit than the rest of us. Of course, replacing cookies, brownies, and other flour-based sweets with fruit is a good thing. However, when you eat an abundance of acid fruit – like pineapple, oranges,

1. Eat Whole Fresh Fruit, Not Dried Fruit or Fruit Juice. The fiber in whole fruit slows down the uptake of sugar into your blood. Dried fruit has a much higher concentration of sugar. And fruit juice has no fiber to slow it down. Naturally, however, you don’t have to worry about juice from grapefruits,

Fruit is the highest source of vitamins of any food group, and the second highest source of minerals, following vegetables! No wonder The United States Department of Agriculture recommends eating 2-4 servings of fruit per day. Ironically, I’ve found that many in our community treat fruit as a snack or decoration. For example, they sprinkle